Posted by: clintworley | April 11, 2008

April Fool’s Day - Thoughts?!?

I hope that you all had a great time with the April Fool’s Day event that we pulled off. We learned from last year and added a nofun flag for those of you that wanted to turn it off. We had a great time watching the chaos!

We have been very busy with Live-events and I hope that you have all had a chance to jump in and enjoy the hard work that the guys have been working on.

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It was alright, still though.. if only it were permanent. :)

12 days later, we still see shouts and people asking how to do :D
This only means that it was a good joke !
Seeing giant gnomes everywhere was also really fun :)

Any update on the elf models, Clint?

I haven’t been on much lately, so haven’t experienced the live events, but I’ve been very excited about all the relatively large-scale changes being introduced in the next few patches.

Still.. it’d be nice to see the prototypes and concept art for the new elf models! :)

Had a fun time with the April 1st stuff, but it didnt last long enough! I was also disappointed that my main was turned into a frog. How boring is that?? :-P

Hi Clint

The April fools joke relaly had me a good one. Great work

I think the concept was great, but the time it was ‘active’ was far too short. =(

precisely BECAUSE there was a flag to turn it off, it would have been nice to leave it in, perhaps just with a re-randomization of the combinations every 60 minutes as something that could be had fun with for a good while. People who didnt log in between noon and 8pm on the 1st didnt even get to see anything at all.

Personally I think that adding flags in the eqclient.ini file as ‘easter eggs’ to enable “past” april1 content would be a great addition. You could have lines like

ILikeStickFigures=1

turns on stickfigure mode from 2 years ago, and

ILikeGriegsEnd=1

turn on the clientside randomization of what each race / gender renders as on your client. Since it’s all client side, it could be left in as a fun easteregg for future generations =)

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